Arts Advocacy / Creative Autonomy
| RECIPIENT | PURPOSE | TOTAL AWARDS | 1991 PAYMENTS | GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/91 |
| American Association of Museums/National Cultural Alliance Washington, DC |
To build a national coalition that develops public support for the arts and humanities. | $50,000* | $50,000 | |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation New York, New York |
To support the Arts Censorship Project, whose focus is to protect the First Amendment rights of artists and art institutions. | 200,000* | 100,000 | |
| Artist Trust for Washington Seattle, Washington |
For the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression to enable the creative community to respond to threats of censorship. | 35,000 | 35,000 | |
| Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Ohio |
To produce and distribute a videotape of a presentation in Phoenix, Arizona, on the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, detailing the criminal prosecution of the museum. | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
| Hollywood Policy Center Foundation Culver City, California |
For the Freedom of Expression/Art in America public education advertising campaign whose goal is the preservation of artistic freedom. | 50,000 | 50,000 | |
| Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation Chicago, Illinois |
To strengthen the advocacy skills of arts organizations' Boards of Trustees and to produce an advocacy handbook for Illinois. | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
| New England Foundation Cambridge, Massachusetts |
To convene a New England Artists Congress to respond to the funding crisis and generate advocacy strategies. | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
| People for the American Way Washington, DC |
To continue the advocacy work of Artsave, a national research, technical assistance and education project to protect freedom of artistic expression. | 75,000 | 75,000 | |
| Social Policy Corporation New York, New York |
To help the New Press develop a publishing program in the fields of art censorship and art education. | 150,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 |
Arts Education
| RECIPIENT | PURPOSE | TOTAL AWARDS | 1991 PAYMENTS |
GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/91 |
| Children's Museum Boston, Massachusetts |
To bring members of ethnic communities into the Museum to serve as co-curators for ethnic exhibitions and the Museum's collections. | $50,000 | $50,000 | |
| Cultural Council Foundation New York, New York |
To support the Poetry Exchange which integrates poetry with music, movement and art in an interdisciplinary method of arts education for youth-at-risk. | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
| 52nd Street Project New York, New York |
To replicate and market this model program which brings together children-at-risk and theater professionals on an ongoing basis to create and present new plays. | 40,000 | 40,000 | |
| Foundation for Independent Artists New York, New York |
For the development by Urban Bushwomen of a community engagement program based on traditional ethnic cultures, for performing arts touring companies. | 25,000 | 25,000 | |
| Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts |
For Harvard Project Zero to design and implement Project Co-Arts, a two-year national study to better analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of community arts education programs. | 250,000 | 150,000 | 100,000 |
| Meet the Composer New York, New York |
To support composers' residencies in public schools. | 40,000 | 40,000 | |
| New York University New York, New York |
For the Goldwater Poetry Teacher Training Fellowships. Fellows teach severely disabled adults to write poetry. | 2,000* | 2,000 | |
| Original Ballets Foundation New York, New York |
A two-year grant to support the New Ballet School of the Feld Ballet to offer free ballet training and a pre-professional program for public school children. | 100,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| Tennessee Department of Education Nashville, Tennessee |
To produce a videotape of the Tennessee Arts Academy training program for arts educators, levels K-12. | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
| Theater Chamber Players Washington, DC |
To encourage the talents of young, gifted inner-city musicians in the DC Youth Orchestra by providing master classes taught by the Theater Chamber players. | 15,000 | 15,000 | |
| Urban Gateways Chicago, Illinois |
To bring together Chicago's cultural resources and public school system to develop creative approaches to arts education. | 50,000 | 50,000 |
New Agendas / Access & Diversity
| RECIPIENT | PURPOSE | TOTAL AWARDS | 1991 PAYMENTS | GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/91 |
| Academy of American Poets New York, New York
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To increase program diversity with two series: (1) A Language for Nature: Writers on the Environment; and (2) A Festival of Asian and Asian-American Poetry. | $30,000 | $30,000 | |
| Alternative Media Information Center New York, New York |
To support regional news bureaus at media arts centers and public access cable stations for the Deep-Dish Television Network. | 40,000 | 40,000 | |
| Arts Resources and Technical Services Los Angeles, California |
For the Multicultural Arts Management Internship Program which recruits summer interns for Los Angeles cultural institutions | 30,000 | 30,000 | |
| California Institute of the Arts Valencia, California |
A two-year grant to support collaborations between the Institute and community-based arts groups | 150,000* | 150,000 | |
| Creative Time New York, New York |
To assist visual and performing artists to create new work for presentation in public spaces throughout New York City. | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
| DIA Art Foundation New York, New York |
For a Black Popular Culture symposium produced in collaboration with the Studio Museum of Harlem, and for the publication of the symposium as a book. | 15,000 | 15,000 | |
| Downtown Community Television Center New York, New York |
To support video training workshops for the Latino community and to increase post-production services for community organizations. | 30,000 | 30,000 | |
| Japanese American Cultural and Community Center Los Angeles, California |
A two-year grant to support Celebrate California, a performing arts festival of work from diverse ethnic communities presented to new audiences. | 50,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts New York, New York |
To support the new Department of Jazz for the development of educational programs to bring Lincoln Center jazz concerts to community sites. | 35,000 | 35,000 | |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, California |
To support the production of a documentary film on the exhibition Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany | 50,000 | 50,000 | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles California |
For First Visit and Beyond, a community outreach program for multicultural museum audiences. | 50,000 | 50,000 | |
| National Theatre for the Deaf Chester, Connecticut |
To extend the work of the leading theater of the deaf. | 15,000 | 15,000 | |
| New York Community Trust New York, New York |
For the creation of the Arts Forward Fund, an innovative funding consortium to explore the options for long-term survival of arts organizations in New York City. | 50,000 | 50,000 | |
| New York Foundation for the Arts New York, New York |
For a national research project on the recruitment of multicultural trustees for the boards of arts organizations. | 30,000 | 30,000 | |
| New York Shakespeare Festival New York, New York |
To support Festival Latino's productions by leading Latin American theater companies. | 25,000 | 25,000 | |
| Studio Museum in Harlem New York, New York |
To support the museum's exhibition, publication, and education programs. | 50,000 | 50,000 | |
| Symphony Space New York, New York |
To support outreach to Black and Latino audiences for musical events at Symphony Space. | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
| Tibet House New York, New York |
To bring Tibetan art and culture to an American audience. | 7,000 | 7,000 | |
| Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota |
To complement the Interrogating Identity exhibition with residencies and multidisciplinary programs by artists of color. | 25,000 | 25,000 | |
| Washington Performing Arts Society Washington, DC |
To increase cultural diversity in the Society's board, staff, and programming. | 40,000 | 40,000 | |
| TOTAL | $1,939,000 | $1,589,000 | $250,000 |
*Award authorized in 1990.